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The Syria Files

Thursday 5 July 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria Files – more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. This extraordinary data set derives from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names, including those of the Ministries of Presidential Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Information, Transport and Culture. At this time Syria is undergoing a violent internal conflict that has killed between 6,000 and 15,000 people in the last 18 months. The Syria Files shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy, but they also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another.

Thanks for your time and effort,
As you know, now I am applying for a position at Damascus university
in Syria, and part of the requirements to submit within my file the
original papers. Here in the Ministry of Higher Education most of the
original documents issued from outside Syria must be rectified by the
Syrian Embassy in the county of the issued document. I kindly asked
you to do this on my behalf because it will save me time and money as
both of you are in the UK and this only the reason for asking you to
kindly do this on my behalf. Dr. Brian Whiting of East London
University(one of my supervisors) kindly did this for me when I asked
him to provide me a letter of my teaching and research activities
during my PhD studies. As I told you I do not have anyone to do this
for me in the UK.
The reason I asked you to send me two original copies, one to keep it
for my own file, and the second one to use it when is needed abroad
when applying for post in other countries.
If this is problem for you, please just send me one copy and the other
one just post it to the Syrian Embassy and then they will rectify the
letter and post it to me through them.